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Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar

ROCKING OUR PRIORS

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Why People Join Religions

I was more familiar with scholars of the Axial Age and the rise of moralizing supernational punishment. They say that, well, as societies who are expanding, these rules like they shall not kill,. you know, people really believe those ideas, so they stopped killing each other. And it's that theology, those beliefs in our conscious brain that foster more group bonding and sense of identification together. Whereas you're saying, actually, it's not necessarily the theology, it's by practicing and doing all these nice things together that we enjoy, then we start to trust this larger group. Exactly so.

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